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Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Patrick Cahill, Nancy J. Morales, Terry Ehret, Moira Magneson

6 APRIL 2025 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading to celebrate the Sixteen Rivers Press featured titles for 2025, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, the department of peace, Patrick Cahill, If we are the forest the animals dream, Moira Magneson, In the Eye of the Elephant, and Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales, award-winning co-translators of Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, poems by Ulalume González de León, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series. Featured books will be available for signing at the reading. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Patrick Cahill's new poetry book is If we are the forest the animals dream. Erin Rodoni says, "These poems remind me of looking up at a forest canopy, the way the crowns of trees don't touch, leaving channels of light between them. Each line is etched like a leaf against the sky." His previous collection is The Machinery of Sleep. He's also the contributing editor for the anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots: Poems for Sonoma County and cofounder and editor of Ambush Review. His poetry has appeared in The Daguerreian Annual, Left Curve, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco, where he volunteers with San Francisco Recreation and Parks in habitat restoration.
Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales are co-translators of Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, poems by Ulalume González de León. Terry Ehret's previous poetry collections include Night Sky Journey, Lucky Break, Translations from the Human Language, and Lost Body. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series, California Book Award, Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, Northern California Book Award for California Poetry in Translation (with Nancy J. Morales), and eight Pushcart Prize nominations. She served as Sonoma County Poet Laureate, 2004-2006. Nancy J. Morales served as a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients. Besides receiving the NCBA for California Poetry in Translation, she also received a Pushcart nomination. Nancy J. Morales lives in Napa County. About Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, Amanda Moore says, "This third and final volume of Ulalume González de León's Plagios is a triumph, a culmination of some of the most compelling elements of her poetic works: Here is de León's exploration of found and familiar language, her curiosity and playfulness, her embrace of the everyday alongside the poetic."
Moira Magneson's new poetry book is In the Eye of the Elephant. Albert Garcia says, "I am drawn to Moira Magneson's poems for the grime and gristle of their language—"elisions and plosives swept / piecemeal and stained // off the slaughterhouse floor"—for storytelling that stares pai in the face and delivers a hard-earned, unexpected beauty that is possible because of a clear-eyed placement in the natural world." Her previous book is A River Called Home: A River Fable, an illustrated novella. Her poetry has appeared in Margie, Verse Daily, Runes, Rattlesnake Review, Hanging Loose, and elsewhere. In 2024, she was the resident poet for ForestSong, a community arts project exploring solastalgia, biophilia, and resilience in the face of wildfire devastation. She lives in the Sierra Foothills where she has spearheaded many arts actions and initiatives.
Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong's new poetry book is the department of peace. Maw Shein Win says, "With an unerring eye, [Wai-Lee Kwong] skillfully weaves together charged political critique, complex family experiences, and meditations on the natural world in poems that compel and reveal." Her previous poetry collections include The Quenching and ravel. Her work in poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as The California Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Pedestal, Nimrod, and elsewhere. Liriope, her first play, was staged at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Her second play, There's No Stopping to My Thoughts, was staged at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center with a grant from the California Arts Council. Renku.earth, an Elixir application she built for writing poetry collaboratively, was a runner-up for the 2024 Elixir Consultancy Prize from the consultancy firm Erlang Solutions. She lives in Hong Kong.




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15 JULY 2025 — tuesday

  • Jackie Thomas-Kennedy reads from her new novel, The Other Wife, joined in conversation by Carol Edgarian, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

16 JULY 2025 — wednesday

17 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • City Lights and Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore in Paris, celebrate the publication of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, edited by Adam Biles, he will be in conversation with Sylvia Whitman, the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, and Peter Maravelis, Events Director at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Zoom, free, Noon (citylights.com/events/adam-biles-sylvia-whitman-in-conversation-with-peter-maravelis)
  • Poetry Night Reading Series presents Dane Cervine, Nine Volt Nirvana, and Adela Najarro, with host Dr. Andy Jones, air-conditioned venue, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)
  • Poets Molly Fisk and Kim Shuck present poems from varied perspectives about wildfire, flooding and related catastrophes in California from the California Fire & Water anthology; they will be joined by six other contributors to the anthology, Gene Berson, Heather Bourbeau, Aileen Cassinetto, Susan Cohen, Alison Luterman, and Maw Shein Win, California Fire & Water anthology, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-17-25)
  • City Lights and Verso Books celebrate the publication of EVERYTHING IS NOW: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde–Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop, this groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from J. Hoberman, the legendary writer on art and film, Zoom, free, 6:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/e/j-hoberman-tickets-1295155518019?aff=oddtdtcreator)
  • Miranda S. Spivack reads from her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards, a groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against local governments to keep their communities safe, joined in conversation by Victoria Baranetsky, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

18 JULY 2025 — friday

19 JULY 2025 — saturday

20 JULY 2025 — sunday

  • Roberto Tejada, Why the Assembly Disbanded, celebrates the release of his new poetry collection, Carbonate of Copper: Poems, with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander, Mojave Ghost, limited seating, Kerouac Alley, between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe, 257 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/forrest-gander-with-roberto-tejada)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Rachel Richardson, Smother, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt, 2727 California Street, a Cooperative Art Gallery, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

21 JULY 2025 — monday

  • Blue Light Press presents "Eleven Poets from the Blue Light Press Summer Workshop," a poetry reading by Barbara Saxton, Mylo Schaaf, Susanna Praetzel, MJ Moore, Nancy Lee Melmon, Melissa Hobbs, Jennifer Grant, Robin Gabbert, Kay Barnes, Pat Barone, and Diane Frank, Society of Artists Gallery, 1513 3rd Street (at E Street), San Rafael, free, 6:00 pm (www.bluelightpress.com/events.php)

22 JULY 2025 — tuesday

23 JULY 2025 — wednesday

  • Bridget A. Lyons reads from and presents her new book, Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species, joined in conversation by Leigh Marz, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free admission, 7:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)

24 JULY 2025 — thursday

25 JULY 2025 — friday

26 JULY 2025 — saturday

  • Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents Karen Greenbaum-Maya and Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
  • The Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake present "Narrating the Mother," an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living, moderated by Sri Lankan American novelist Nayomi Munaweera, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, 10:00 am-11:00 am (www.eventbrite.com/e/narrating-the-mother-tickets-1328737101439)
  • Sacramento Poetry Alliance presents the VOICES reading with Cold River Press, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, refreshments, 4:00 (see Sacramento Poetry Alliance on Facebook)
  • Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show presents a poetry reading by Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Carol Dorf, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Judy Bertelsen, with host Kathryn Jordan, North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library,1170 The Alameda (at Hopkins), Berkeley, free, 2:00 (marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events-category/traveling-show)

27 JULY 2025 — sunday

28 JULY 2025 — monday

29 JULY 2025 — tuesday

30 JULY 2025 — wednesday

31 JULY 2025 — thursday

  • "The Jingwei Bird" is a program that explores the complexity of climate change and our relationship to the planet through multi-disciplinary performances with Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim, weaving newly composed music by Asian-American composers with powerful bilingual poetry, using storytelling and mythology to deepen our understanding and awareness of the environment, San Francisco Main Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (415/557-4400, on.sfpl.org/07-31-25)

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